Libéralisation de l'achat des terres agricoles en Roumanie
    Le gouvernement roumain de centre gauche a adopté un projet de loi libéralisant la vente de terres agricoles en Roumanie à des citoyens européens à partir de 2014, a-t-on appris jeudi.
    • AFP
    • 21 November 2013
    Argentina: Que Harvard detenga la destrucción ambiental y social en la zona de la Reserva Iberá
    "Exigimos se detenga la expansión de las plantaciones hasta que se realice el estudio de impacto ambiental comunitario y participativo pertinente".
    • AVAAZ
    • 20 November 2013
    Where the buffalo shouldn't roam
    In Romania traditional livelihoods and rare animal species are about to give way to a bizarre, private project to introduce American buffalo. It's part of a rural exodus, and EU law will make future land grabs even easier.
    • openDemocracy
    • 20 November 2013
    L’amertume du sucre
    Comment contrer l’accaparement des terres des plus pauvres par les fournisseurs des grandes marques de l’agroalimentaire et du textile ? Oxfam dénonce “La face cachée des marques” via des fiches d’évaluation. Et puis ?
    • La Libre
    • 20 November 2013
    Mali : Accaparement des terres - l’opposition de la société civile
    Le 19 novembre 2013, au Musée national du Mali, la Convergence malienne contre l’accaparement des terres, composée de cinq organisations faitières de la société civile que sont l’AOPP, la CAD-Mali, la CNOP, la LJDH et l’UACDDDD/No vox, a lancé sa campagne intitulée : « Stop aux accaparements des terres au Mali ».
    • Lerepublicainmali
    • 20 November 2013
    Papua New Guinea losing independence
    Papua New Guinea is the latest known victim in a modern era of land grabs orchestrated by foreign corporations according to an investigative report and a film.
    • Oakland Institute
    • 19 November 2013
    Beefing up ties with Myanmar
    Myanmar officials have proposed to Bangladesh to invest in agriculture in their country as it has a lot of arable lands for this purpose. The Myanmar government also said they were ready to give long-term lease of land to Bangladeshi entrepreneurs for agricultural purposes from which both the countries would benefit.
    • Financial Express
    • 19 November 2013
    Global funds chase Australian farms
    Global fund managers and some of the world's largest pension funds have bought more than $1.5 billion of agricultural land in Australia over the past three years.
    • Stock Journal
    • 18 November 2013
    Le nouveau code d'investissement, une mauvaise copie de l'actuel!
    La possibilité offerte par le projet du Code d’investissement aux étrangers d’entrer dans le capital des sociétés propriétaires des terres agricoles constitue une atteinte à la sécurité alimentaire de la Tunisie.
    • WMC
    • 18 November 2013
    Terres volées d’Ethiopie
    Quelle que soit la finalité — production agricole ou investissement financier —, de ces accaparements des terres, les bénéfices échappent presque toujours aux communautés locales. L’exemple de l’Ethiopie est emblématique.
    • Monde Diplomatique
    • 18 November 2013
    Los oscuros intereses de China sobre las tierras argentinas
    Luego del desastre ecológico, China necesita urgentemente tierras para cultivar sus alimentos y ya puso un pie sobre Argentina.
    • La Gran Época
    • 17 November 2013
    Fund manager Duxton buys farms in New Zealand
    Duxton Asset Management is buying a stake in seven sheep and cattle farms even as it voiced concern over the country’s system of regulating foreign investment.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 17 November 2013
    Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’
    Communities are finding that ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation, as demand for the product grows in Europe, India and China.
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 16 November 2013
    The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities
    Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana
    • FAO
    • 16 November 2013
    Big ag deal goes largely unnoticed
    Late on Wednesday night an Australian trust backed by Swiss, Danish and US fund managers agreed to pay more than $200 million for 12,000 hectares of almond groves in northern Victoria.
    • Financial Review
    • 15 November 2013
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